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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Corbett said yesterday that he plans to sue the NCAA in federal court
over sanctions imposed against Penn State in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual-abuse
scandal.

The Republican governor scheduled a news conference for today on Penn State’s campus to announce
the filing in Harrisburg.

The sanctions, agreed to by the university in July, included a $60 million fine that would be
used nationally to finance child-abuse-prevention grants. State and federal lawmakers have objected
to the money being spent outside Pennsylvania.

Email and phone messages seeking comment from the NCAA on the expected lawsuit weren’t
immediately returned yesterday.

NCAA President Mark Emmert had said in a Dec. 12 letter that a task force had been charged with
allocating at least 25 percent of the fine money to programs in Pennsylvania.

Republican U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent said days later in a statement that Emmert’s response was “
unacceptable and unsatisfactory.”

The NCAA said then that it stood by what Emmert had said.

The fine was part of college sports’ governing body’s sanctions on Penn State for its handling
of the abuse scandal involving Sandusky, a former assistant under football coach Joe Paterno. The
sanctions also included a four-year ban from postseason play and scholarship cuts for the football
program.

Sandusky was convicted in June on charges he sexually abused 10 boys, some on campus. The
68-year-old was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in state prison.